Bag-fastener



UNITED lSTATES PATENT OFFICE.

MAMIE E. MCCOY, OF WICHITA, KANSAS.

BAG-FASTEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 599,858, dated March 1, 1898. Application filed February 16, 1897. Serial No. 623,721. (No model.)

' To all whom it may concern.'

Be it known that I, MAMIE E. MCCOY, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Wichita, in the county of Sedgwick and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bag-Fasteners, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings, and the figures of reference thereon, forming a part of this specification, in which* Figure l is a side view of my improved bagfastener. Fig. 2 is a side viewv of the same, showing the manner of folding the bag. Fig. 3 is a like view of the same, showing the manner of securing the bag closed by the fastener. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the bag-fastener; and Fig. 5 isj an edge viewof the same, showing how the crimped ends fold back in the crimps of the fastener.

rI-his invention relates to certain improvements in bag-fasteners; and it consists of a fiat piece of metal crimped and secured across the open end of the bag with the ends of said crimped metal extending beyond the edge of the bag.

6 represents the open end 7 of the bag turned over as it would be folded in closing the bag, which fold may be repeated as many times as desired to fold the bag down to the contents of said bag. For example, if the bag should only be half filled, the end of the bag Having thusl described my invention, what I claim as new and useful, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is as follows:

' 1. The herein-described bag-fastener consisting of a piece of crimped metal secured to said bag parallel with and near the open end, with the end of said fastener extending out from the bag, said metal adapted to bend.

2. The herein-described bag-fastener consisting of a piece of crimped metalsecured to said bag near the open end,vand parallel with said open end, by the strip 5, the end of said crimpedmetal strip extending beyond the edge of said bag, and adapted t0 bend.

Witnesses:

O. MULvEY, THoMAs O. Hoss. 

